Steam News announces the availability of a new patch to automatically update Magicka to address some of the issues with the just released action/adventure game. This comes shortly after Paradox informed Rock, Paper, Shotgun that such a patch was in the works and that the game would be receiving new patches approximately every 24 hours to address any other problems that crop up. The change list follows.

Characters will now clear any crossfading previously in progress when initializing.

Character network performance has been improved.

Servers will now properly clear pending clients when starting a game.

Some grapical improvement has been made to the tutorial level.

Burning grease is now working properly over network.

Grease network performance has been improved.

PhysicsObjects now update their orientations correctly over network.

DamageableObjects status effects now work properly over network.

Character status effects now work properly over network.

Fixed a dialog problem which prevented cutscenes from ending properly.

Wizard castle collision mesh has been adjusted.

Havindr Arena's collision mesh has been adjusted.

Glade's collision mesh has been adjusted.

Hyphen (-) has been added and other fixes have been made to the fonts.

Ruins script has been modified.

Ruins textures has been improved.

A few missing NPC name tags have been added.

A glitch when characters performed multiple move orders in sequence has been fixed.